Hey! I just wanted to drop everyone a quick line. I’m flying back from my vacation in Ocean City, MD. I joined my mother and my sister, Debbie’s, family in visiting my aunt, cousin’s family, and grandmother. We had a fabulous time! Check out my flickr account in the next couple days to see all the pictures! I’ll also post some of the videos I took with my new Canon 780IS to youtube! The videos from it are very crisp at 720p, and all it’s only a pocket, point and shoot!

Speaking of pictures. Check out the picture below. I’m writing this as I’m flying over southern Utah! Virgin America has wi-fi on their flight for 12 bucks. Well, I’m getting my money’s worth! The cabin is pretty cool, and each seat has a little video touch screen attached to it. I can watch CNN, a movie, play games, check out our position on Google Maps, and order a beer! If VA flys to where I want to go, I’ll probably go with Virgin!

Ok, here’s another of my stupid life experiments.  I was charged with finding the best way to do webcasts at work, and so I’m trying out Mogulus.  So far, it’s easy to use.  Well, here’s the “Channel” below.  Enjoy!

I usually don’t pimp myself or my blog out all that often, but when the odds look fairly good, I might as well try it out!  Go over to http://gearlive.com and enter their contest.  They’re giving out Hewlett Packard stuff!  You have to be on Twitter to enter!

But, this video just rocks!  Unfortunately, I can’t embed it into my website because YouTube/Radiohead doesn’t allow it with this video.  You can find the video here.  http://code.google.com/creative/radiohead/

Correction:  Here’s the video!

I like the song.  It’s rather haunting and very poetic.  But I’m really fascinated by how they made it:  using short and long range lasers.  No other form of light or traditional video cameras were used!  A computer reads in the data from the lasers (in this case, distance data) and translates it into a 3D form:  aka data visualization.  What’s even cooler,  Google and Radiohead have a basic application that lets you play with the 3D visualization while the song is playing!  http://code.google.com/creative/radiohead/viewer.html I really recommend it to everyone (well, those who have high speed internet)!!

I was browsing Newegg the other day, and as usual, I looked over the daily specials.  Unlike most times I go to Newegg, this weekend, as with other businesses, the Independance Day Weekend Sale was in full force.  I’ve been wanting to create a fast local network with some nice wall brackets/plugs.  Currently, I already have a decent wireless/wired network, but it’s very sloppy and slow (wires are strewn on the floor, and even traipse several stories down stairs).  Lo and behold, Newegg had a sweet deal on an 8 port gigabit, D-Link switch ($41!).  So my plan is to find some network cable, wall brackets, and some network tools and build a sweet network!  I’m planning on two ports upstairs, two downstairs, and two in the basement.  The last two ports will go to the wireless router and a Network Attached Storage.  A what?  It’s a standalone device that soley serves as a place for Doug and I to backup our files and keep media files that every computer on the network can access.  A fast network is absolutely necessary for this!  The big problem will be laying the network cable.  I have several options available me:  keep stringing the cable along the floor hoping no one trips over it, I can have it go outside then back into the rooms I want to wire, or go up into the attic then down into the walls.  I think the last one is the most viable and will look professional becase the cables will be out of sight.  However, this is the attic we’re talking about, and I’ll have to start this project early in the morning when it’s relatively cool.  Well, I’ll update everyone when I start working on this!